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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the first thing Ursula buys for her ever expanding home?

2. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?

3. Who does Pietro proclaim his love for?

4. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?

5. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do with his newfound solitude?

2. The plague of Rebeca spreads across the town - who helps to save the people?

3. When Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes obsessed with mechanical animals, what do Aureliano and some townspeople do?

4. Describe Jose Arcadio Segundo.

5. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia begin to realize?

6. Describe Melqunades.

7. How do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia learn that Rebeca is related to them?

8. Why won't Ursula have sex with Jose?

9. What does Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate from the distant government, require that Ursula do for her home, but she then ignores the ruling?

10. When Colonel Aureliano Buendia leaves Macondo, who takes his place? Describe this leader's leadership style.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Government seems to play a significant role in this novel. How does the government positively affect Macondo? How does the government negatively affect Macondo? Give at least two specific examples of each.

Essay Topic 2

Why is the parchment so important for the characters in the book? What makes this parchment something important to the family? What happens when the parchment is finally deciphered? Who is the one who deciphers it? Why is it so important that this character be the one who deciphers the parchment?

Essay Topic 3

It could be said that the novel is comparable to the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Give some examples of how this could be the case, keeping in mind that Genesis' story begins with the creation of paradise and the eventual downfall and alteration of Paradise because of one person's choice to create the world in the first place. Cite at least four examples of similarities and differences between Genesis and the story of Macondo.

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